The president of the Latvian Paralympic Committee, Daiga Dadzīte, posted this summertime on social networks, taken in entrance of the dental clinic on Pärnavas avenue, Riga, and wrote: “I couldn’t help but photograph this masterpiece!”
He recalled that principles and laws demand professional medical services to be available.
On the other hand, he could not generate on those people tracks with his electric wheelchair. The wheels of the Daigas Experience are broader and the rails are positioned too far from each other.
A wheelchair ramp is found in the courtyard powering the gate
On the other hand, the representatives of the clinic stated in the feedback to the article that the ramp for the disabled was put in in the institution from the aspect of the courtyard, in close proximity to another doorway. And the central entrance is also less than repair service. “Regretably it is not occurring swiftly, but we are doing work really hard to take care of the problem!”
Daiga replied that the ramp on the side of the farm does not strengthen the situation, for the reason that the farm has an automated gate and the entrance is only with their very own passes. “Attention-grabbing option,” he told her.
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A valley of discomfort in lots of neighborhoods
When questioned about the accessibility of the ecosystem in Riga, Daiga, who has been touring in a wheelchair for 23 a long time, in an job interview with the portal Jauns.lv, expressed his assessment that the heart of the capital is much significantly less available. , but in Purvciem, Dārzciem, Pļavnieki, Āgenskaln, Torņakaln, Imanta, Zolitūde there is a valley of pains linked to availability.
He pointed out that the largest problem is that household doctor’s offices and other clinical establishments are situated in buildings that have been after created, which are now being adapted in several techniques for people with disabilities. There are developing codes and pointers for environmental accessibility, “but I am stunned when you imagine of some thing like this, for illustration, make slopes that will not regard them”.
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Steep blackboard
As a detrimental working experience, Daiga informed of a the latest trip to the physiotherapist at “Veselības tsentra 4” in Krišjāņa Barona street. The big creating was beneath repair, so the physiotherapist experienced other rooms in a tiny annex.
“There was this sort of a ramp! I wouldn’t get in touch with it an access ramp. There was a instead steep staircase with a bolted blackboard. It was like a safety guard was keeping me at the rear of. I drove with an electrical wheelchair, which alongside one another with me weighed 160 kg. The security guard was in the back again, the physiotherapist in front. The experience was that I had closed my eyes. I felt like I was flying somewhere! “
Nonetheless, the doorway hinges can be screwed again on!
This ramp was a short-term option, but Daiga noted that some properties are nevertheless not obtainable to men and women with walking problems even on a day-to-day foundation. For example, there are difficulties with pharmacies in close proximity to which ramps have been constructed, but the doors open towards the ramps.
“Alright, I recognize if you cannot put a ramp in the street, etcetera., but you can screw the hinges on the door! It is elementary!”
Also, this predicament exists in numerous pharmacies. “I have an understanding of why they do it that way. They have to be available, this has very long been recognized in the constructing codes, but a changeover interval of quite a few decades has been set.”
There are also fantastic examples
Daiga pointed out Purvciema’s “Aura” wellness middle as a fantastic example of reflecting on the accessibility of the environment. The premises of the new Ogre library are also completely suitable for folks with unique disabilities.
On the other hand, the Daugava stadium in Riga and the Jānis Daliņa stadium in Valmiera are inaccessible and unsuitable in quite a few destinations.
Suitable for “tick following”
Daiga stated that several problems come up mainly because builders and repairers examine the policies that the premises should be accessible to folks with mobility and other disabilities, but they do not consult with the real persons for whom it is supposed. Therefore, several items happen “just after a tick”.
It is not typical for stadiums, the place Paralympic athletes also teach and which are attended by individuals with disabilities, do not have stands, toilets, showers, saunas and other ideal services. Braille has complications much too, he reported.
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